Confabulating Research

“Search is a powerful indicator of behaviour because of the incentives involved; search terms must accurately reflect your needs otherwise you’ll get the wrong results.”

Data’s great. But we have to use it with care. In that article, StreetBump is a sobering example, as is the make-up of Lady Ga Ga’s audience…reminiscent of Freakonomics perhaps.

Homeboy Research

There’s literally no “emptiness” in Hip Hop. The lyrics anyway.

This piece looks at Hip Hop lyrics and is especially cool and fabulously constructed from a presentation point of view. There’s a NSFW version of most used words list, and you can put money on never setting this line in a hip hop song yo:

Is everyone asking for car crashes?

“The internet rewards attention with cash because of advertising. We built that model. We didn’t build a model that rewards high quality content or trust-worthy media owners or decent editorial environments”

His points on terms and conditions at the end resonated with us – you’ve seen ours of course (high-fiving myself).